Speaking of emotions : conceptualisation and expression / edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Elżbieta Tabakowska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanasiadou, Angeliki.

Tabakowska, Elżbieta.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research.

Cognitive linguistics research ; 10.

Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 10.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and emotions.

Expression.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Speaking of Emotions".

Contents:

Frontmatter

I. The conceptualisation of emotions across cultures: national character through time

"Sadness" and "anger" in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called "basic human emotions" / Wierzbicka, Anna

The cultural dynamics of "national character": The case of the new Russians / Mondry, Henrietta / Taylor, John R.

Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor / Wierzbicka, Anna

Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy? / Travis, Catherine

Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese / Hasada, Rie

Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study / Györi, Gábor

II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fear

Are there any emotion-specific metaphors? / Kövecses, Zoltán

The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish / Mikołajczuk, Agnieszka

Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger / Taylor, John R. / Mbense, Thandi G.

The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek / Athanasiadou, Angeliki

Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by / Tabakowska, Elzbieta

III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse

The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases / Radden, Günter

On emotions that one can "immerse into", "fall into" and "come to": the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructions / Mostovaja, Anna D.

The ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog / Palmer, Gary B. / Brown, Rick

Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy / Grondelaers, Stefan / Geeraerts, Dirk

The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot's novel Miaha / Reh, Mechthild

TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation / Werth, Paul

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110806007

3110806002

OCLC:

794664427